Switch to DNF in Koji?

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Wed May 20 22:18:14 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> several months ago I talked to dgilmore and probinso and we talked about using DNF in Koji and start building F22
> packages using DNF resolver.
> The conlusion was that it is quite late in cycle. And it is better to start with plain Mock and leave user to test it on
> their local workstatations. Mock is using DNF for fedora-rawhide-* targets for some time already. And I received none
> complaints.

I'm not sure if you've seen the issue described at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1210862, but many rubygem packages are
going to FTBFS if Koji switches to using DNF.

I don't know why DNF prefers JRuby over MRI, but it would be nice if
DNF could preserve whatever Yum's behavior was for that.

- Ken


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